CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -Programmatic Intervention for Planning of Healthy Cities: Every city must aspire to become a ‘Healthy City for All’ by 2030.

Detailed explanation-2: -NITI Aayog released a report on ‘Reforms in Urban Planning Capacity in India’ in September 2021. The report mentions that during 2011–36, urban growth will be responsible for 73% of the rise in total population. This brings opportunities to leverage urbanisation, while posing challenges to sustainable growth.

Detailed explanation-3: -The origins of urban planning in India can be traced to the planned towns of Mohenjodaro and Harappa belonging to the Indus Valley Civilisation as early as 2500 BC(Ramachandran 1989). Cities and towns werealso built around forts and centres of trade and commerceat various periods in the history of India.

Detailed explanation-4: -The global urban population is back on track to grow by another 2.2 billion people by 2050, it said. India’s urban population is projected to be 67, 54, 56, 000 in 2035, growing from 48, 30, 99, 000 in 2020 to 54, 27, 43, 000 in 2025 and 60, 73, 42, 000 in 2030, the report said.

Detailed explanation-5: -Urban planning enables a planner to judiciously utilize the scarce financial resources in various activities of urban development such as poverty eradication, employment generation, water conservation, energy, transportation, environment and population control, etc.